By Mike Crawford
Blue skies and high pressure have sat on us for a couple days and made for excellent trout fishing on the eastern Finger Lakes. Water temperatures remain around 40 degrees and locating areas slightly warmer, like shallow rocky shoals and around creek mouths and inlets, will help you find fish.
Area trout streams are dropping and clearing and anglers are experiencing good conditions around the region. On shallow lakes and bays the panfish are moving into warmer water. Perch fishing was somewhat slow this week. Next period of calm and overcast weather should turn them back on.
Suckers are charging up the brooks and two hen rainbows I caught and released on the open lake this weekend were dribbling eggs.
The peak of the spring trout season is still ahead of us and it is off to an exciting start!
The highlight of the week for me was an invite to join friend Stephen Peltz, founder of CNY’s Reel Big Charity, http://cnyreelbig.byethost6.com, on board the Bandito III with Tony Buffa’s Fishing Charters out of Oswego Marina. In less than an hour, Stephen landed a 21 pound brown trout! A monster! Several other Browns and lakers caught as well, but the bruiser pictured here is at the taxidermist!
Tight Lines, Mike
